Electric Bicycle

Two years ago, California's Hi Power Cycles (HPC) set out to make a premier e-mountain bike. Four prototypes later, and the Scout Pro is born. Riders can engage the motor to zip up to 36 mph, or pedal hard for a top speed of 45 mph.

Yamaha has announced the Wabash Adventure Gravel e-bike, which has the look of last year's Urban Rush e-bike, that we first clocked at Interbike in 2017, but with some important tweaks for tackling hard surfaces or loose dirt.​

There are many electric-assist bikes available, and most will offer the rider different levels of assist, selectable from the handlebar. But the Greyp G6 unveiled in Zagreb, Croatia, on Friday can monitor a rider's heart rate and adjust the level of assistance it provides accordingly.

On a typical e-bike, you choose between different levels of electrical assistance. While the temptation is to select the max, what if that uses up the battery? The iweech e-bike is claimed to automatically select the optimum level, so you get where you're going, but with minimal effort.

The Klement offers a glimpse into Skoda's crystal ball, where the micromobility future will be electric, innovative and modern. It also pays homage to the very beginnings of the company, which started with bicycle and motorcycle manufacturing in 1895.

The first electric cargo bike from Minnesota bike builder Surly is a long-tailed two-wheeler fitted with Bosch’s brawniest EV drive unit, promising the kind of pulling power befitting an “18-wheeler of the cargo bike world.”​

​It was back in 2009 that we first heard about Karbon Kinetics Ltd's Gocycle, an e-bike with a seamless injection-molded magnesium alloy frame and an enclosed chain-drive. Other models followed, and now the company has announced the fast-folding Gocycle GX.

​Bike builder Cake made quite a statement when debuting its first model last year, a high-powered all electric dirt bike. It is now turning at least some of its attention to the tarmac with a street-legal version dubbed the Kalk&.

At CES this week in Las Vegas, UK bike retailer Halfords announced mid-year availability for the world's first e-bike – the Cybic E-Legend – that has Amazon's Alexa cooked in, meaning that riders will be able to ask the cloud-based voice assistant for directions and more.

There are electric scooters and there are electric bicycles. And then there are curious inbetween beasts that seem to feature the best of both designs. The 2019 Suru Scrambler is one such curiosity, a street legal pedal-assist bicycle designed for both on- and off-road action.